Things to remember while you are reading!

The Eight Reading Strategies of Guided Comprehension


vPreviewing: activating background knowledge, predicting, and setting a purpose.
v Self-Questioning: generating questions to guide reading v
Making Connections: relating reading to self, text and world.

vVisualizing: creating mental pictures of the text while reading. v
Knowing how words work: understanding words through strategic vocabulary development, including the use of graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cueing systems to figure out unknown words
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Monitoring: Asking: Does this make sense? And clarifying by adapting strategic processes to accommodate the response.

vSummarizing: synthesizing important details. v
Evaluating: making judgments.